In addition to administering the database server, you can tune performance, replicate data, and archive data.
These topics contain concepts, procedures, and reference information for database and database server administrators to use for managing and tuning HCL Informix® database servers.
These topics describe how to use the HCL Informix® High-Performance Loader (HPL) to load and unload large quantities of data efficiently to or from Informix databases.
This section contains additional reference information.
This section provides explanatory notes and corrective actions for unnumbered messages that print in the High-Performance Loader (HPL) log file. The section also includes information specific to messages that are returned to standard output or appear in a pop-up dialog box (depending on the way you started onpload).
Welcome to the documentation for HCL Informix® 15.0 and related client tools and products.
HCL Informix® is a fast and scalable database server that manages traditional relational, object-relational, and dimensional databases. Its small footprint and self-managing capabilities are suited to embedded data-management solutions.
These topics describe how to install HCL Informix® database servers, client products, and DataBlade® modules.
HCL Informix® includes utilities and applications that you can use to perform administrative tasks and capture information about configuration and performance.
These topics provide the information required to administer HCL Informix®.
These topics include comprehensive descriptions of HCL Informix® configuration parameters, the system-monitoring interface (SMI) tables in the sysmaster database, the syntax of database server utilities such as onmode and onstat, logical-log records, disk structures, event alarms, and unnumbered error messages.
This publication describes how to use the DB-Access utility to access, modify, and retrieve information from HCL® Informix® database servers.
This section shows how the components of the High-Performance Loader (HPL) fit together. The section includes a step-by-step tutorial with two examples (for a load and an unload job) that use the ipload graphical user interface (GUI).
This section contains information about using the ipload utility.
This section explains how to create a project and how projects are related. The individual components that you store in projects are described in later sections.
This section describes the process of configure the High-Performance Loader (HPL).
This section describes how to define and use device arrays with the High-Performance Loader (HPL).
This section describes the formats that the High-Performance Loader (HPL) provides and shows how to prepare and edit the format component.
This section describe how to define queries including how to create, edit, and export and import queries.
This section describes how to define maps with the High-Performance Loader (HPL). It also describes the options that are available for defining maps.
This section describes how to create, edit, and delete filters.
This section describes the Unload Job window.
This section describes the load process.
This section describes the Generate options for the ipload utility.
This section describes the browsing options that are available for the High-Performance Loader (HPL).
This section describes how to use the onpload utility.
This section describes how to use the onpladm utility.
The tables in the onpload database hold information that the onpload utility uses. This section describes the tables in the onpload database that you create or modify with ipload.
The default $INFORMIXDIR/etc/plconfig.std file on UNIX™ or %\INFORMIXDIR%\etc\plconfig.std on Windows™ is the high-performance loader configuration file.
The HPL uses two types of picture strings: COBOL picture strings and other picture strings.
This section describes the operators that are available when you match text and it provides an example of each operator.
Custom-conversion functions allow you to add additional data conversion capability to the High-Performance Loader (HPL). This feature lets onpload call a custom-conversion function during the data-conversion process.
The -j option of the onstat utility provides special information about the status of an onpload job. The -j option provides an interactive mode that is analogous to onstat -i.
If your operating system supports dynamic linking of libraries, you can use a custom driver to extend the functionality of the High-Performance Loader (HPL) to support different file types or access mechanisms.
When you convert or revert to different versions of the database server, you can use conversion and reversion scripts to manually upgrade or revert your onpload database. You must use these scripts if you are required to upgrade between the same server versions.
These topics describe how to configure and operate your HCL Informix® database server to improve overall system throughput and to improve the performance of SQL queries.
These topics describe the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and the software that you need to use SNMP to monitor and manage HCL Informix® database servers and databases.
InformixHQ is a modern web console for visualizing, monitoring, and managing your Informix server instances. It is purpose built for ease-of-use, scaling out, and optimizing DevOps needs. It provides critical performance management capabilities, monitoring how key performance metrics are changing over time and tracking how efficiently Informix is running your workload even when you’ve stepped away from your screen. Its monitoring system feeds directly into a customizable alerting system so you can be immediately alerted via email, Twilio, or PagerDuty whenever an issue occurs on one of your Informix database server instances. InformixHQ is designed to be scalable to efficiently manage and monitor as many Informix database server instances as you need. Moreover, it's a tool that can be shared by the DBAs, the app developers, the ops engineers, and management and accessed from any desktop, laptop, or mobile device. InformixHQ is the centralized hub for graphical monitoring, alerting, and administration of your Informix database servers.
These topics describe how to use the HCL® Informix® ON-Bar and ontape utilities to back up and restore database server data. These utilities enable you to recover your databases after data is lost or becomes corrupted due to hardware or software failure or accident.
These topics describe the concepts of data replication using HCL Informix® Enterprise Replication, including how to design your replication system, as well as administer and manage data replication throughout your enterprise.
You can upgrade to the 15.0 release of HCL Informix® or migrate from other database servers to Informix. Upgrading is an in-place migration method that uses your existing hardware and operating system software. Some changes to the Informix database server can affect upgrading from a previous release.
You can use the HCL Informix® implementation of client APIs to develop applications for Informix database servers.
When you embed HCL Informix®, you can use enterprise-class high-availability and high performance with embeddability features such as easy programmability, a small disk and memory footprint, and silent deployment.
Beyond standard relational database objects, HCL Informix® can be extended to handle specialized data types, access methods, routines, and other objects. Informix includes many built-in extensions that are fully integrated in the database server. Informix also provides DataBlade® modules, which are packages of extended database objects for a particular purpose and that are installed separately from the database server. Alternatively, you can create your own user-defined objects for Informix.
In addition to designing and implementing Informix® dimensional databases, you can use tools to create data warehouse applications and optimize your data warehouse queries.
The first step in creating a relational database is to construct a data model, which is a precise, complete definition of the data you want to store. After you prepare your data model, you must implement it as a database and tables. To implement your data model, you first select a data type for each column and then you create a database and tables and populate the tables with data. You can also implement fragmentation strategies and control access to your data.
You can use the popular JSON-oriented query language created by MongoDB to interact with data stored in HCL Informix®.
You can secure your Informix® database server and the data that is stored in your Informix databases. You can encrypt data, secure connections, control user privileges and access, and audit data security.
You can use the HCL Informix® implementation of the SQL language to develop applications for Informix database servers.
Several troubleshooting techniques, tools, and resources are available for resolving problems that you encounter in your HCL Informix® database server environment.
